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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Monday following its three-week losing streak.The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in midday trading after giving up most of an earlier, modest gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 17 points, or less than 0.1%, as of 11:25 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.1% higher.Truist Financial…

When archaeologists began excavating a plot of land in Narbonne, France, they quickly uncovered dozens of ancient Roman burials. That was just the beginning.Seven years and over 1,400 tombs later, their work has finally finished.The result? An extraordinarily detailed account of life and death in a typical ancient Roman graveyard.The ancient…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the War in UkrainemyFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.Greece and Spain are under intense pressure from their EU and Nato allies to provide more air defence systems to Ukraine, as Kyiv demanded more aid at a meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers on Monday.The Ukrainian leadership…

Poland’s president says the NATO member would be ready to host the nuclear weapons of the military alliances’s other members in response to Russia’s moving its nuclear weapons to neighboring BelarusApril 22, 2024, 8:40 AM ET• 2 min readWARSAW, Poland -- Poland’s president says the NATO member would be ready to host the nuclear weapons of the…

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has arrived at Baghdad airport, in his first state visit to Iraq in 13 years. The Turkish president will meet Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid, as well as Prime Minister Muhammad Shiya al-Sudani. A series of 20 agreements are set to be signed today. Erdoğan is accompanied by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, as well as…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka on Sunday and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others, officials said.Thousands of spectators looked on as the mishap took place during a race in the town…

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to Battery B, 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 25th Division Artillery, 25th Infantry Division, load a M119A3 Light Towed Howitzer 105mm during a combined arms live-fire exercise during Balikatan 2022 on Colonel Ernesto Rabina Air Base, Tarlac province, Philippines, March 31, 2022. Balikatan is an annual…

Fifteen people were injured during a crash involving a tram at Universal Studios Hollywood on Saturday. Los Angeles County Fire Department crews rushed to the scene, located at 3900 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, at around 9 p.m. on Saturday. Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department say that there were 15…

Multiple agencies are conducting a search for two men who went missing while kayaking near Central Saanich on Saturday. Sidney/North Saanich RCMP say the two men were kayaking between Island View Beach and D’Arcy Island on April 20 and have not returned. Daniel MacAlpine and Nicolas West were last known to be kayaking from D’Arcy Island to…

Taiwan's president-elect Lai Ching-te has met with a bipartisan delegation from Kosovo. They agreed to further strengthen cooperation between Taiwan and Kosovo. The group of parliament members led by former prime minister Avdullah Hoti is visiting Taiwan from Tuesday.The members met with Lai on Friday at the…